JAMB REASSIGNED CANDIDATES TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) at
its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting, held on July 14, 2015
in Abuja, announced the adoption of a policy whereby
candidates of universities with surplus applicants for the
Unified Matriculation Examinations (UTME) are
reassigned to other universities with lower number of
candidates than their capacities.
According to the Registrar/CEO of JAMB, Professor Dibu
Ojerinde, the policy portends two benefits:
It will be beneficial to “needy Universities” that is
universities with lower number of candidates than their
capacities, as this will ensure that these universities will
have more candidates to admit.
Candidates will have better chances for admission in the
universities they are re-assigned to, contrary to
situations where they would await admission in the
universities of their first choices until the admission
exercise closes and they forfeit admission in that
session.
This policy has been implemented with immediate effect.
And is currently being used to determine eligibility of
candidates to write the Post-UTME in their respective
choice institutions.

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